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The British Foreign Office and MPs had repeatedly warned English football fans and "people of Asian or Afro-Caribbean descent" travelling to Russia of "racist or homophobic intimidation, hooligan violence and anti-British hostility". At the close of the World Cup Russia was widely praised for its success in hosting the tournament, with Steve Rosenberg of the BBC deeming it "a resounding public relations success" for Putin, adding, "The stunning new stadiums, free train travel to venues and the absence of crowd violence has impressed visiting supporters.

Russia has come across as friendly and hospitable: All the foreign fans I have spoken to are pleasantly surprised. FIFA President Gianni Infantino stated, "Everyone discovered a beautiful country, a welcoming country, that is keen to show the world that everything that has been said before might not be true.

A lot of preconceived ideas have been changed because people have seen the true nature of Russia. The elimination of the US national team in qualifying led to concerns that US interest and viewership of this World Cup would be reduced especially among "casual" viewers interested in the US team , especially noting how much Fox paid for the rights, and that US games at the World Cup peaked at During a launch event prior to the elimination, Fox stated that it had planned to place a secondary focus on the Mexican team in its coverage to take advantage of their popularity among US viewers factoring Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Fox stated that it was still committed to broadcasting a significant amount of coverage for the tournament. In February , Ukrainian rightsholder UA: PBC stated that it would not broadcast the World Cup. This came in the wake of growing boycotts of the tournament among the Football Federation of Ukraine and sports minister Ihor Zhdanov.

Broadcast rights to the tournament in the Middle East were hampered by an ongoing diplomatic crisis in Qatar over alleged support of extremist groups. Qatar is the home country of the region's rightsholder, beIN Sports. On 2 June , beIN pulled its channels from Du and Etisalat , but with service to the latter restored later that day.

Jones — that has you jiving in your seat. Baby Driver bounces nimbly between these two moods throughout, and finds a number of ingenious solutions — variations, deviations, an explosion of little coiled-spring spirals of chaos at the climax — to the problem of how on earth a film can amp things up after opening at full tilt.

It feels a little bit like a 21st century urban Western. The appropriately baby-faced Ansel Elgort delivers a charming and cocky and infectious and borderline irritating performance as Baby, who is charming and cocky and infectious and, yes, borderline irritating. At the obligatory rendezvous in a remote warehouse, we get to know the team of hardened criminals that pulled off the heist. The dialogue pops and crackles with sharp one-liners, the chase sequences are gritty and exuberant and fueled by the eclectic pop soundtrack, the editing is tight and timely and the performances are spectacular.

At one point during a shootout sequence, each blast of gunfire is in sync with the rhythm section of the pop song on the soundtrack. In a tense diner scene, the seemingly unhinged Bats speculates about their back story, drilling deeper and deeper, and seems to be hitting some pretty serious nerves, judging by their expressions.

Where did THIS guy come from? In brief fantasy sequences, Debora appears as a black-and-white vision. As opposed to the maniacs with guns who want Baby dead after Baby makes some, shall we say, questionable decisions. The music, the performances, the twists and turns in the plot, the sheer energy and life force of the movie. The first bullseye The Dark Tower movie hit was casting its lead: Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, the last of the knights known as gunslingers, a lost man wandering an apocalyptic wasteland in search of the Man in Black, whose next stop on his march of destruction is our world.

The casting choice by director Nikolaj Arcel was a change from the novels. Stephen King had envisioned a Clint Eastwood-style, blue-eyed, white man as his six-shooting knight, but the author has applauded the choice of Elba for the lead character in his epic saga.

In the story, the tower is a mythic structure at the nexus of all space and time. Its levels constitute different worlds and realities, and our world is stacked among them — a critical building block, actually.

By harnessing people with this strength, the Man in Black can use them to break through the dimensions and attack the tower. So, by protecting the boy, Roland the Gunslinger is protecting these worlds. He does not hesitate to draw his irons to save Jake. It focuses on a young getaway car driver played by Elgort who uses music to help time his driving.

A slew of musicians are set to appear, including Flea, Sky Ferreira, and Foxx. Baby Driver hits theaters June Admittedly, unlike Donald Trump, President Underwood has done more than just slaughter his enemies on Twitter.

At the time this felt a ludicrous contrivance. Such brazen nepotism would clearly never be tolerated in the actual Washington. Twelve months and one President Trump later, however, what once seemed like feverish overreaching has acquired a retroactive plausibility.

A behind-the-scenes shake up has seen wunderkind showrunner Beau Willimon make way for the duo of Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese. The newcomers have reconnected with the clean-burning efficiency of seasons one and two, trimming away many of the distracting subplots in which the show had latterly become entangled. As the intrigue resumes, the Underwoods remain locked in a battle to the political death with dashing Republican Presidential candidate Will Conway Joel Kinnaman.

Polling day looms and the Underwoods are using fair means and foul mostly foul to undermine their telegenic foe. Best of all, Frank has rediscovered his habit, largely dropped in the previous series, of monologueing to the viewer. Shut the curtains, mute your phone and prepare to binge. This slickest of political thrillers is back to its pitch black best. Click here to read the full article at Telegraph. The Trump era has raised questions for TV shows set in Washington, wondering how fictional drama can possibly match the unscripted one in the White House.

That's not to say topics raised or brushed upon by the Netflix drama don't periodically collide with reality, sometimes in uncomfortable ways. Picking up where season four left off, the show finds President Frank Underwood Kevin Spacey and his wife Claire Robin Wright in the waning days of a presidential campaign, leveraging fear of terrorism to bolster their prospects. There are keen insights over the course of the season all of which was previewed about matters like the toxic nature of partisanship, the influence of dark money and cynicism in how the political class plays to voters' worst impulses.

Still, "House of Cards" has always operated on the fringes of absurdity, where murder and blackmail are among the Underwoods' tools of persuasion. That was especially true during Season as Frank rose to the Oval Office by eliminating one impediment after another -- but has persisted even after he had the levers of presidential power at his disposal.

That basic template also characterizes the campaign storyline, which encompasses a bit too much of the episode season. The plot regularly veers into outlandish territory -- starting with Frank having chosen Claire as his running mate -- that, whatever the parallels, shares more with the frothy camp of "Scandal" than reality, even our current one.

That's because for the Underwoods, politics is less about the art of the deal than mastery of the double cross. The show's street cred continues to attract an impressive assortment of supporting players -- including Joel Kinnaman, Neve Campbell, Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott -- along with plenty of cameos by news people as themselves, the ultimate symbol of how hip the show is perceived to be.

Frankly, "House of Cards" doesn't consistently reach that level of cool in Season 5, if it ever really did. But Spacey and Wright again deliver such toothsome, showy performances -- owing more to Lord and Lady Macbeth than Bill and Hillary -- that the show remains highly watchable, despite those instances where it bubbles a little too over the top.

The producers also incorporate several nifty smaller moments throughout, such as Frank and Claire watching "Double Indemnity" on the eve of the election. The finale, meanwhile, sets up a reasonably juicy and dramatically fertile scenario for what comes next. As one of the dramas that helped put Netflix on the map, "House of Cards" premiered at a very different moment.

Yet however crazy real-life politics have become, the Underwoods' bag of dirty tricks still trumps them. Click here to read the full article at CNN. Stephen King fans have spent years waiting for The Dark Tower movie.

Over the years it's developed in fits and starts -- often built with huge franchise expectations -- but it was only last year that director Nikolaj Arcel officially started principal photography on the blockbuster.

Now the movie is just a few months away from release, and while no trailer has officially come out yet, tonight we got our first look at some debut footage. The annual theater owner convention known as CinemaCon is currently going on in Las Vegas, and it was tonight during Sony Pictures' big studio presentation that the first ever clips and scenes from The Dark Tower were shown. I was one of the lucky people to be sitting in the audience during the event, and I have to say that what I saw did quite the effective job of blowing my hair back.

Set in the woods, the footage began with a panicked and clearly injured Roland Deschain Idris Elba pointing his two guns in random directions -- looking for a target. Though we can't see who is speaking, we hear the voice of The Man In Black Matthew McConaughey , who does his best to make his foe give up, telling him that the war is over and that he can't even save himself let alone anyone else.

Finally making eyes on his target, he announces "I don't kill with my gun; I kill with my heart," and fires a shot at the back of The Man In Black, who is walking away from him. Without any sense of worry, The Man In Black reaches behind him, catches the bullet, and continues, saying "The Tower will fall, Roland. This showdown is interrupted by our first look at Jake Chambers Tom Taylor , who suddenly wakes up in bed startled to find that his bed is shaking. In a scene with a therapist, Jake is asked about the visions that he sees, and tells the doctor about a shadowy man and the image of a Dark Tower than protects the universe these descriptions accompanied by dark charcoal drawings.

The therapist tells him that these are just dreams, but this point is somewhat unwritten by the fact that the entire office begins to quake similar to what was happening in Jake's bedroom. We then see Jake in the street holding a drawing he's done of a house -- and he seems surprised to discover that the exact same house is standing in front of him. While it's definitely abandoned, the teenager goes in anyway, and as he walks the walls and floor begin to move. Eventually he discovers what can only be described as a portal, and after leaping out of it finds himself in a desert landscape with a giant ringed planet on the horizon.

It's here that Jake runs into Roland, and he immediately recognizes him as "The Gunslinger" -- noting that he's had dreams about his acts of bravery saving a town. As Roland is quick to point out, however, that was no dream. After some quick shots of glowing-gun action, we hear Roland explain his relationship with The Man In Black who we see walking through the same portal from before, only leaving his world and entering ours.

One of the big action pieces had Roland charging at the Man In Black and shooting glass that freezes before piercing the villain.

As the glass is about to be redirected Roland's way, we watch in slow motion as he tosses two sets of full chambers in the air, catches them in his guns, and fires. The last scene of the Dark Tower footage featured Jake being nabbed by a freaky looking dude and whisked away during panic in a small village.

A woman approaches Roland about the abduction, and the Gunslinger asks for quiet. He takes in the world around him with his eyes closed, listening to the universe. He hears droplets of blood, a wrench hitting a pipe, and finally the sound of Jake's feet being dragged. Roland slowly raises his gun without looking and fires, and while the bullet has to travel through a window and a blanket on a clothes line, it eventually strikes the kidnapper in the head and puts him down dead.

As someone who has never read Stephen King's Dark Tower books, I can't say that I was entirely aware of exactly what was happening at all times during the footage, and it didn't exactly provide a full explanation of the plot -- but I was still impressed by what was presented. Slow motion gun reloading is admittedly a tad played out at this point, but the movie definitely has a special sense of style, and just the power of Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as performers has me enticed by the relationship between Roland Deschain and The Man In Black.

Even though The Dark Tower is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters this summer -- on July 28th to be precise -- we sadly still don't know when official footage is scheduled to finally arrive online. That being said, you can be sure that we will have full coverage of The Dark Tower trailer when it does finally arrive, so be sure to stay tuned in the coming weeks! Click here to read the full article at CinemaBlend.

The footage opens with a look at a door frame standing free in the middle of a baron landscape. It then it cuts to Roland in the desert as the famous opening line to King's The Gunslinger, the first volume in the series, is displayed on screen: The footage gives a strong idea of just what The Man in Black is capable of, and it's scarily creepy.

Roland and The Man in Black then square off, with Roland telling the villain, "I do not kill with my gun, I kill with my heart. The footage then cuts to the young boy Jake, who lives in New York but has dreams of Roland and a Dark Tower that must stay standing or else billions will die.

Jake's therapist tried to tell him it's a dream, but Jake doesn't believe it. Soon, he is shown exploring an abandoned building, where he discovers a portal that takes him to Roland's world. Soon, he presents Roland with one of the drawings the boy made of him from his dreams, and Roland explains that as long as The Man in Black is out there, the Tower will fall and Hell will follow. There are slow-mo shots, including a big fight between the Gunslinger and The Man in Black, as well as an extended look at Roland's prowess with his guns: It opens July Click here to read the full article at HollywoodReporter.

Click here to read the full article at Consequenceofsound. The movie follows a young getaway driver Elgort , who relies heavily on his personal soundtrack. When he meets the girl of his dreams Lily James , he sees a chance to clean up his criminal life, but something gets in the way.

Click here to read the full article at TheWrap. Out of the feature and shorts screened over the course of nine days at the SXSW, here are the films audiences are raving about.

Roosevelt are among the audience award winners from the film festival in Austin, Tex. The full list — including narratives, documentaries, and episodic categories — was revealed on Saturday, after the jury prizes were announced on Tuesday. Read about it on EW. You know that feeling at the end of a kickass movie when you just want to hug someone because you are SO.

Well, get ready for Baby Driver, the first solo writing effort from Edgar Wright, the mad co-creator of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which debuted in front of exactly the kind of late-night audience that would appreciate the hell out of it at the South by Southwest Film Festival Saturday night.

The world got a sense of what we in that Austin movie theater were experiencing when the trailer started flying across Twitter just after the screening ended, and viewers started sharing their praise.

Heat, Point Break, and Reservoir Dogs. Many on Twitter compared Baby Driver to a revved up La La Land with its endless stream of tracks and vibrant cityscapes. A laundromat love scene where every dryer is spinning clothes of a different primary color is particularly arresting. Adding to the intensity is how real it all looks: To get the shots he needed, Wright would strap himself to the car rather than follow in a pursuit vehicle.

I hit my head on my monitors so many times. Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, and Lily James also have supporting turns in the movie, which was earning the kinds of comparisons to classic films that can really get a buzz machine going just minutes after its debut.

But the crowd in the Paramount Theater was ready for him, greeting the action film which verges on the edge of a musical with the kind of enthusiasm that SXSW is often known for. In it, Wright says, he essentially filmed the opening of his imagined getaway driver heist film and wound up kicking himself when the video became unexpectedly popular.

Point Break, Heat, and Reservoir Dogs. He also cites the Dustin Hoffman film, Straight Time, as a significant influence. But when asked if his story—which centers on a young man Ansel Elgort who times each getaway ride to the perfect song—drew on the cult favorite Hudson Hawk, Wright laughed off the comparison.

When it came to clearing the music rights to the film, Wright said he had no issues, given how eager bands were to be part of the film.

His only snag came in the pursuit of certain hip hop songs who had not, themselves, cleared the right to music they had sampled. In those case, Wright says, he often went back to the source and just used the original song instead of the hip hop or dance remix.

Coming off an embattled filmmaking experience with Marvel Studios on Ant-Man, Wright describes the Baby Driver set as excessively warm and enjoyable. To pass the long hours spent in cars waiting for the roads to clear so they could film a chase, Wright would run lines with Downton Abbey and Cinderella star Lily James, who was rehearsing a production of Romeo and Juliet. After watching the dailies of co-star Jon Hamm, he would turn to Wright and say incredulously: Onstage at the Paramount Theater, Hamm—who plays the heavy in the film—said he found his own inspiration for the role: Just being an actor in Hollywood will do that to you.

Read about it on VanityFair. While the eyes of the country are on Washington, D. We make the terror. Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese serve as co-showrunners on the fifth season of the Beltway drama, replacing Beau Willimon, who stepped down from the series after running it for the first four seasons. Click here to read the article at Variety. No matter what happens, you have to applaud the studio for trying a new approach to the increasingly stale art of franchise development.

Baby Driver August 11 No director of his generation choreographs an action sequence with the precision, clarity, and delight of Edgar Wright. This upcoming music-driven film starring Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver is almost certain to have the best car chases of the year, delivered with verve and fun.

Click here to read the article at Vulture. Baby Driver, the new film from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright, stars Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver who attempts to leave the criminal life behind after meeting the girl of his dreams Lily James.

So, you have this young getaway driver who has to soundtrack his entire existence, particularly the bank robberies and fast getaways that come afterwards. Then I thought, Oh, yeah, I wrote this!

But while those projects had a thick comedic streak, Wright reveals that Baby Driver is designed to shred nerves more than tickle funny-bones. It gets genuinely tense and threatening. That was actually a fun thing for me — to do dramatic or thriller scenes which just up the ante.

Read about it on Entertainment Weekly. Consider it an early Christmas present: Ansel Elgort stars as the titular getaway driver they call Baby. He suffers from crippling tinnitus that causes a ringing in his ears, and in an effort to drown out the excruciating sound, he listens to music during the getaways. Even the sound design of something like Spaced stands out, and Wright refined his approach to blending digetic and non-digetic sound in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, building to a culmination with Scott Pilgrim vs.

One could go so far as to describe Scott Pilgrim as a musical given that music plays such an integral role in that film—especially the action sequences. Wright is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today, so any chance to see new material from him is reason to celebrate. That his next film happens to be a unique, music-driven action-thriller makes it that much sweeter. Read about it on Collider.

Media Rights Capital is also producing. Currently Mortal Engines stands as the only major studio release on its mid-December date. The news comes after 20th Century Fox announced last night that a James Cameron untitled pic will hit the multiplex on Dec. In the film, two unlikely heroes come together and change the course of the future. Jackson and Walsh co-wrote the screenplay with their fellow Oscar-winning collaborator, Philippa Boyens, with whom they crafted The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies.

Boyens is also a co-producer on the film. Universal will distribute the film worldwide. Click here to read the article at Deadline. Production will begin next spring in New Zealand.

MRC and Universal will co-finance what they hope will spark another potential franchise for Jackson and Walsh, who adapted the script with Philippa Boyens, their writing partner on both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

Scholastic published the first book in and four followed in the sci-fi fantasy series. That was the one they had been fired off years before, following the disappointment of The Frighteners. He followed by creating King Kong: Jackson and Walsh first got involved in Mortal Engines back in , when it was speculated he might direct.

Instead, he has given that task to Rivers, who has a close year association with Jackson that started with Story Board artist. I wish I could see it tomorrow! Universal will distribute worldwide. A fantastical, futuristic world that has to be seen to be believed. This is the first major movement on the series since Simmons came aboard more than a year ago, with active casting now underway as the project gears up for production.

Described as an espionage thriller with a metaphysical twist, Counterpart is the story of Howard Silk Simmons , a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency who discovers that the agency he works for is really guarding a crossing into a parallel dimension. Through Howard and his counterpart on the other side, the show will navigate themes of identity, what-ifs and lost love. Starz ordered two episode seasons in Her TV credits include Dollhouse and Halcyon.

Simmons also serves as a producer. Ever since the film project was first proposed, it came packaged with an unusual idea: MRC has committed not just to making a pilot, but producing a full run of between 10 and 13 episodes, depending on how the scripts and story arcs develop.

The Dark Tower show will begin shooting in with plans to premiere it in , ideally around the time the film becomes available on cable or streaming services. The darkness of the story rivals that of Game of Thrones, so they will require either a cable or streaming platform MRC also makes House of Cards for Netflix, so they have a history already.

But MRC is not going to wait for a partner to come aboard before moving forward. Elba has signed on to appear as older Roland alongside Tom Taylor, 15, who plays Jake Chambers in the film, a boy from present-day New York who harbors a secret, psychic power and is grappling with visions of the tower and the men and other creatures who are trying to reach it. Yes, ironically, the father of Roland is… King Steven. Even back then, Marten was a ruthless manipulator who, in a gambit to destroy young Roland, manuevers the hot-headed boy into prematurely taking his gunslinger trials against instructor Cort Andrus.

Roland tells his new friends of his first encounter with such a thing, unspooling a tale about being sent by his father on a mission to the Barony of Mejis, a distant seaside kingdom in the same dimension as his homeland of Gilead. As a tribute to King on his 69th anniversary in our world, MRC created this map, overlayed with a quote from the book, which was spoken by Cort to a young Roland.

The map demarcates the various towns and landmarks within the territory of Mejis: None of these roles, including the young gunslinger, have been cast yet. In addition to the source material in the comics, King could also choose to offer them tips on where to take the story in a future season, since he has been presiding over the film project from afar, weighing in on scripts and story changes.

Or, he may sit back and decide to let them run with it on their own. Click here to read the full article at EW. Homecoming has the chance to revitalize the webslinger's big-screen presence, but the company still needs other hit properties to bolster its film wing. With soggy performance for its Ghostbusters reboot likely to thwart aspirations for an extended franchise, attention turns to what might be the company's next hit series.

If the film comes together and is backed by strong marketing, it could launch the company's next billion-dollar film property. With marketable stars Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba attached in lead roles and a popular book series to draw inspiration and fanfare from, Dark Tower has the potential to be a breakout hit for Sony and pave the way for a successful film franchise. Stephen King adaptations have generally not been huge box office successes, but The Dark Tower series stands out as especially ripe for presence on the big screen and packs the type of action set pieces, humor and world building that have been features of the most successful superhero films in recent years.

On the acting talent side of things, both Elba and McConaughey are in the midst of career upswings, and the film's diverse casting should play to its advantage—as has been the case with recent franchise films including Furious 7 and Suicide Squad. The Dark Tower might also benefit from its release window.

Mid-February isn't typically thought of as the ideal time to release a film that's intended to launch a high-profile franchise, but movies are increasingly finding success outside the summer and winter holiday release windows, and recent hits including 50 Shades of Grey and Deadpool have shown that Valentine's Day weekend can be huge for movies.

Outside of its reintroduction of Spider-Man within the same universe as Disney's Marvel movies, Sony appears to be relatively light on obvious blockbuster film properties—even more so now that its distribution rights to the James Bond franchise have expired. Looking at its announced pictures for the near future, the company is reviving the Bad Boys franchise, with sequels planned to launch in and , rebooting Jumanji for a summer release, and developing a Barbie movie based on Mattel's iconic doll line.

The company was also aiming to revive its Men in Black series by way of crossover with the 21 Jump Street property, in a mash-up dubbed MIB However, recent comments from prospective star Jonah Hill indicate that the project could be scrapped and the two series kept separate.

Other big upcoming films for Sony include adaptations of video games Uncharted and The Last of Us—series that are very popular on PlayStation titles but video game movies have a troubled history at the box office. Click here to read the full article at Newsweek. Stephen King authored eight books in the Dark Tower series over the past three decades, and so turning this into a cohesive feature film posed a herculean challenge.

Abrams and Damon Lindelof, but this final iteration kicked off a few years ago when Ron Howard envisioned an ambitious adaptation plan that included three feature films and a television component interspersed between each movie—basically two additional seasons of a limited TV series to fill in the story gaps. This new image is shared by actor Tom Taylor, who fills the role of Jake Chambers, a young boy who aids Roland in his journey.

In this new image, we see the doorway that separates Earth from Mid-World, with Taylor preparing to walk through. Take a closer look at the photo below, along with some high-resolution shots from the film.

Traveller, beyond lies Mid-World. Click here to read the full article at Collider. Bateman also serves as executive producer and director.

Rather than the familiar skyscrapers and trading floors, Ozark explores capitalism, family dynamics and survival through the eyes of anything-but-ordinary Americans. The series will premiere worldwide on Netflix in Click here to read the full article at Deadline. Grounded in dark reality, the money-centric present-day story revolves around financial planner Marty Bateman and Wendy Bird Linney and their family's sudden relocation from the suburbs of Chicago to a summer resort community in the Missouri Ozarks.

Rather than the familiar skyscrapers and trading floors, Ozark explores capitalism, family dynamics and survival through the eyes of anything but ordinary Americans. Arrested Development grad Bateman will direct, exec produce and star. The series was created by Dubuque The Judge , who is onboard as writer and exec producer alongside Bateman.

Bateman will also direct on the series, following his two big-screen directorial efforts, Bad Words and The Family Fang, in addition to his TV experience behind the camera. We spent a week on the set in Cape Town, South Africa, watching as this genre mash-up of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, Westerns, and old-fashioned mythology came together. The saga spans eight novels so far , assorted short stories and comic books, and has played out over three and a half decades.

The new movie picks elements from throughout these writings to assemble a new take on the story of Roland the Gunslinger Idris Elba and his pursuit of the sorcerer known as the Man in Black Matthew McConaughey , who intends to collapse the tower and rule the ruins and chaos alongside a sinister force known as the Crimson King.

Exclusive photos, showing the vast plains of Mid-World, the shadowy Dixie Pig hideaway of the demons who infest our world, and the visions of a boy named Jake Chambers Tom Holloway who is either the key to saving the mythic Tower or the instrument of its destruction. The actor also comments for the first time about race-swapping the Gunslinger, who until now has always been depicted as white. Finally, as an extra treat, King himself weighs in on the film, explains what he asked to change in the script, and provides new insight into how the Tower saga connects to some of his other books, like The Shining, The Stand, and one long-ago short story.

For King fans, we also have another sneak peak at a separate new film adaptation: So keep a beady, glaring eye out for those. Skull Island, and much, much more.

Pick up the issue here or on newsstands Friday. Read the full aricle at EW. After nearly a decade of resting in development, the film adaptation of Stephen King's acclaimed series, The Dark Tower, finally kicked off is production in early April. Leading this version of the story is Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a. While the movie continues filming, the actor posted a teasing message concerning his character's lineage in honor of Father's Day.

I am Roland, son of Steven, son of Henry, true descendant of Arthur. And I have not forgotten. Marking the holiday in his own special way, Idris Ebla posted the above tweet early today with the quote, "Remember the face of your father," which fans of the Dark Tower books know all too well. Aside from being literally interpreted, it can also be understood as making sure one stays true to their beliefs rather than straying from the path.

In addition to the image, Elba also posted a line from Roland about his lineage, from his father Steven all the way back to Arthur, who we'll just say left a royal mark on history. The quotes may not mean much to non-Dark Tower readers, but for the fans, this was definitely a fun way for the main star of the upcoming movie to commemorate Father's Day. Of course, while the image is cool, it still doesn't offer much in the way of plot details or other juicy information. This tease just has fans craving an official look at The Dark Tower even more, whether it's photos of the characters or a trailer.

Maybe this is Elba's subtle way of also foreshadowing that something big is coming soon, though the movie is still in the middle of shooting. It might be a good idea to keep an eye on Idris Elba's account for more teases, potential "first looks," and holiday postings. Although originally believed to be a direct adaptation of the first book in the Dark Tower series, recent information and teases suggest that the Dark Tower movie is taking some creative liberties with its narrative.

Sony's been keeping their lips sealed about the cinematic story, but it appears that the movie will incorporate elements from later installments rather than just that first book, something which Stephen King hinted at last month. What we know for sure is that just like his literary counterpart, Idris Elba's Roland Deschain will be a frontier warrior who uses pistols instead of a sword as his weapon of choice.

The Gunslinger, locked in a cat-and-mouse game against his nemesis, the nefarious Man in Black Matthew McConaughey , as they both travel the realm of Mid-Land in search of the elusive, immensely powerful Dark Tower. King has previously warned fans of the novels to expect significant divergences from the book, saying that it will pick up more in the middle of the story than where it begins in the series of novels, and posting an image to twitter that is not only kind of a huge spoiler, but an indicator that these films are at least somewhat a sequel to the books.

However, the latest tease is aimed directly at book fans. In the books, Roland Deschain is the descendent of Arthur Yes, a version of King Arthur and the last in a long line of formally trained gunslingers. The Dark Tower is set to arrive in theaters on February 17, DiCaprio will be joined by his partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran as producer.

The book revolves around a serial killer in s Chicago who stumbles upon a time traveling device. Appian has held the rights to the book for some time and brought it to MRC several years ago. Danny Boyle was attached to write the pic at one point, but eventually parted ways.

Click here to read more at Variety. The story in the novel was about a serial killer who stumbles into a derelict home in Depression Era Chicago. The home opens up to other eras and drives him to hunt down and kill women in these different time periods, leaving behind momentos at the crime scene that do not match the era. In present day Chicago a young woman is putting together the pieces and find out who his final victim will be to complete his collection.

I liked it but felt there was too much of a disconnect between the killer and the female protagonist in the novel to make their eventual meeting have any sense of intimacy or threat.

Beukes' other novel Broken Monsters. That I also read. That novel should be the next one in line to be adapted. That had a much fuller World and the connections between characters had that level of intimate to really bring on the sense of urgency some characters felt to stop the killer in that novel. Click here to read more at Twitch.

It literally changes everything. The film starts in media res and much of it takes place in the present day. The Dark Tower is close, now.

The Crimson King awaits. Soon Roland will raise the Horn of Eld. Oh, you want to nitpick about how something is different from the books, like Pimli Prentiss showing up so early in the story?

And then Roland is shot backwards in time, back to the start of the first book in series, without any memory of having made the journey in the first place.

The only difference is that he is now carrying the Horn of Eld, the family heirloom that he had abandoned at the Battle of Jericho Hill years earlier.

The implication is that something has changed. Click here to read the full article at Uproxx. One is excitement, and the other is confusion. On the one hand, fans have been elated that the long-gestating film project is finally moving forward. However, much of the casting news has us scratching our heads.

Now, Stephen King himself has dropped a bombshell of a tweet that goes a long way to explaining everything. Roland is caught in an endless loop. From the Tower, he is transported back to the beginning of the story, with no memory of the previous events.

The famous line which opens the first book, "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed," is also the final line of the last book. However, as this walk across the desert begins, Roland is in possession of an artifact called The Horn of Eld. The books tell us previously that, as a young man, at a place called the Battle of Jericho Hill, Roland dropped the horn and left it behind.

He needs to blow this horn from atop the Dark Tower in order to truly complete his quest. The words "last time around" could imply that the movies will tell the story of what happens after the books left off, on that last time around. With this in mind, it at least has the potential of explaining the apparent differences between the books and the movies.

Instead, he remembers picking it up, his past has, in some small way, been changed. So maybe what we have here is something of a "butterfly effect. How would those decisions have affected others?

Perhaps this will help to explain why most of the Dark Tower casting has included characters like Tirana, and Richard Sayre, while we still have yet to hear a word about Eddie or Odetta. Everything is now fair game. We may never see what Roland saw on that endless night.

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